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Soko Describes Her Most Memorable Gig

"I was in Leipzig, Germany doing a movie and I just posted something on Facebook like "Hey, I'm going
to be there tomorrow night. I don't know anyone over here, but would you guys want to come if I played a show? Find me
somewhere and I'll be there". And they wrote, "Oh, you could play in that park, by the pond". I agreed, and I asked the
director of the movie that I was doing if he wanted to come to see me play a few acoustic songs. When we got there,
there were like three hundred people who had come over within only four or five hours. Everyone bought candles and
blankets and tea and stuff. It was totally dark in this park. I was playing acoustic with no microphone or anything and
it was just impossible. I asked people to raise their hands so I would go and play where there were the most raised
hands and I would change location at each song. It was one of those really amazing shows and I played for two hours. I
thought there were going to be about ten people there. It was the most beautiful thing ever."
-- (from DIY interview by Huw Oliver)

JOAN JETT AND SOKO

Los Angeles photographer Brad Elterman,
who photographed Joan Jett in the 1970's, did a photoshoot with Soko
recapitulating Joan Jett's poses at some of the same locations, and published them in his new column
Le Reve

SOKO ON THE STIGMA OF BISEXUALITY

"I just did an interview for a gay women's magazine in France. They asked me something about lesbians who are anti-bi.
I had no idea people like that existed. It's weird to me. Everyone is all about fighting homophobia, but then homosexuals
are straight-o-phobic, or bi-o-phobic. It's like, 'Stop being a fucking hypocrite about it! You want people to tolerate you
for not being like them, but then you go and do this.' You can't march for equal rights and then not tolerate someone who
isn't like you."
---- (to Hayden Manders of Refinery 29)

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According to The Hollywood Reporter,
Soko will have an as yet unspecified role in LITTLE FISH, a science-fiction love story that will star Olivia Cooke and Jack
O'Connell as a young married couple who fight to preserve their feelings for one another as they live through a mysterious pandemic
that erases people’s memories. Production will begin later this month in Vancouver.

"I had four really close friends with me in the delivery room, all women. My doula, Rima, is a Kundalini prenatal
teacher, so she was playing mantras and we were singing these Sanskrit songs, playing crystal bowls, music, and chimes. She told
us that massaging breasts is great to induce faster labor and faster contraction, and so, at some point, someone asked, 'Okay, do you
want an eight-hand breast massage?'"

Soko is Rosie in THE GREAT DARKENED DAYS (La Grande Noirceur), Québécois director Maxime Giroux's absurdist
allegory about a would-be actor stuck in a wildly disordered society dominated by an unseen fascist leader. In the midst of
a world war, Philippe (Martin Dubreuil), takes refuge in the American west, and survives by competing in Charlie Chaplin
impersonation contests. Phillip's travels, both violent and fascinating, illustrate the darker side of the American dream.
THE GREAT DARKENED DAYS had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

What exactly is The Great Darkened Days (La Grande Noirceur)? Is it a minimalist western? A pared-down period piece?
An antiwar diatribe? A twisted Lynchian voyage through American abandon? Actually, this fourth feature from Quebecois writer-director
Maxime Giroux is all of these rolled into one, and then some. Hard to define — and at times, to follow — yet intoxicatingly made
and extremely easy on the eyes, this story of a Canadian hobo wandering the far west as war wages on in Europe offers up rewards
for those willing to hang on through the last, beautifully realized shot.

Soko and eight other musicians are featured in a GQ article titled "Creating While Clean". Here's some of what Soko said:

"I smoked weed for the very first time when I was twenty-eight. And I smoke weed occasionally. But it's really not an
issue. It's like something I would do like once a month if I'm making music or if I'm in the studio or it's around. But
it's really not a thing in my life. I'm not addicted to it, I don't buy it. I don't have it around. And also it's natural,
and it has so many healing properties. I did drink red wine once, about four years ago—a one-night thing for Halloween,
for my best friend's birthday, and it was awful. I got allergic to it. I couldn't even open my eyes for a week. It's the
last time I drank."

Issue Number One of TEN PLUS, the newest
addition to the Ten Magazine family, with Soko on the cover, launched on 20 November It is a bi-annual offering presented in a limited edition box consisting
of oversized posters and a bound magazine, covering luxury fashion. Editrix-in-Chief of Ten Towers, Sophia Neophitou, explained the
purpose of the new magazine: "With 10+ I have found a more precious, interactive way to show and share these magical experiences in a
less-traditional fashion format...I think of it as a distilled version of the 10 spirit – witty, informative
and aimed at those in the know. What's new is the poster element – unfold them and discover our visual stories."

Yeah Yeah Yeahs' frontwoman Karen O, and Brooklyn punk rockers
Parquet Courts, appear in PRETTY PRIZES,
a chic New Wave-style mystery that begins Daniele Luppi's MILANO project, a collection of
fictionalized stories about misfits, fashionistas, and junkies in mid-1980s Milan. The video is
available on YouTube.

PLAYLISTS BY SOKO, a 20 page softcover Zine with 9 playlists (arranged by themes) along with photos and collages of Soko
by Miriam Marlene Waldner, can be purchased from McHardcore for 11.90 EUR.

Writing for The Wrap, Ben Croll reviewed THE DANCER. Here is some of what he had to say:

It just happens to be a pretty good movie with a number of sequences so breathtaking they will knock your socks off.
Those sequences are moments of performance, where our main character dances before a crowd...Said dancer is Loïe Fuller, a real life
cowgirl from the American West who made her way to Paris and became a star, astounding Belle Époque society with her "serpentine dance".

French actress and singer Soko plays Fuller, and plays her to a T. As a performer, Soko exudes a fevered intensity that makes her both
a coldly compelling screen presence and somewhat difficult to cast. In Fuller, she finds her ideal showcase, capturing her character's
fierce drive, crushing timidity and zeal for performance like no other actor could.

Kicking off the summery season with our special ‘Wellness Manifesto', starring Los Angeles-based singer
@sokothecat. For this
issue, @lofficielparis dug into all the latest methods and
alternative practices helping you feel good from mind to toe,
inside and out — crystal healing, shamanism, remote resorts, cutting-edge cosmetics, and more. Also featured, how to wear the
season's most desirable pieces, and all the latest news in fashion, food, travel...Available now on every newsstand. by
@dritch, styling by @jenjalouse with
@gucci and @tiffanyandco. #lofficiel #lofficielparis #SoKo

Soko and Faye Dunaway star in a Gucci ad campaign. In a video released on 25 July, Dunaway autographs a pile of black-and-white portraits
and takes a limo to the Gucci store. Soko plays her stylish daughter.

Hazimi spoke to Kim Taylor of Noisey Music about Soko's version of the song:
"To give you an idea of how I've obsessed over this song," he said. "I started working on it about a year ago. Since then
it's been a game of juggling waiting and editing, between Soko's schedule and the various engineers mixers and
composers who have worked on this from LA to NY. It's been THE most expensive element of my movie and I've
worked on it as hard as I have the movie. How do I feel? Ecstatic. Elated. Overjoyed. It's a song that I want
to hear over and over and I couldn't be more proud of it."

A Calvin Klein CK One video featuring Soko is available on YouTube. It is her voice at the end saying "me for me".
The identity of the woman she kisses in the video is unknown, but it looks like Ali Michael. Others in the video are Dev Hynes
of Blood Orange, Kelela,
Taeyang of K-pop, Samantha Urbani of Friends,
and Swedish duo Say Lou Lou.